Historical Souvenir and Book of the Pageants

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Excerpt from Historical Souvenir and Book of the Pageants: Of the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of Quebec, the Ancient Capital of Canada The difficulties which then attended the creation of a colony add lustre to the name of Samuel de Champlain. The Canadian climate was not balmy, and in the absence of gold mines few inducements could be offered to the immigrant. The sole wealth of the country was its furs, but the monopoly of trade given to persons who were favoured by the court cut off others from all hope of profit. Anyone could see that it was a stern task to clear the Laurentian wilderness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.